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She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. â€œPoison?â€ asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. â€œCertainly not. Something… — Gail Carriger
Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we… — Shirley Jackson
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of… — George Orwell
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. — Hermann Hesse
What iâ€™m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on… — Elif Safak
It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable… — William Hazlitt
I miss him, my lady.â€ â€œWell, he is now living adjacent. You can hardly miss him all that much.â€ â€œTrue. But we are no longer… — Gail Carriger
This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath,… — Anna Funder
We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. — John Green
There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. — Paulo Coelho
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels?… — Bertrand Russell
If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving… — Nhat Hanh
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have… — Agatha Christie
Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure… — John le Carre
We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We cannot create what we can't imagine. — Lucille Clifton
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals. — Jose Saramago
We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born childâ€”pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these… — David Benatar
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes. — Gary L. Francione

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